As the world leads we follow.
Life is long if it is full.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.